A distributed strategy for gait adaptation in modular robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2765-2770

  Christensen, David Johan ^a   Schultz, Ulrik Pagh ^a   Stoy, Kasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED STRATEGIES; GAIT ADAPTATION; GAIT-OPTIMIZATION; LEARNING STRATEGY; ONLINE LEARNING; ROBOT MORPHOLOGY;

MODULAR ROBOTS; MORPHOLOGY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955829274     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509942     Document Type: Conference Paper

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